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The Ignorance of 'New York Magazine'
Christopher Beam did his homework in authoring The Trouble With Liberty, but he needs a firmer grasp of history. Bombs are not libertarian. Beam's chief…
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Don't Buy Government Bonds
When the state spends more money than it receives in taxes — a fact indelibly written into the bond — it is deliberately committing an act of…
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Joan Kennedy Taylor and the Rediscovery of Libertarian Feminism
Reclaiming the Mainstream was Joan's book that placed the origins of the American feminist movement in the abolitionist movement of the 19th century. Joan…
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Roy A. Childs, Jr. (1949–1992)
Childs was mightily impressed by what he read inside the covers of Rothbard's books and by what he heard from Rothbard himself in that famous living room. And…
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Classical Liberalism and the Single Tax on Land
The famous physiocratic tenet that only land is productive must be considered bizarre and absurd. It is certainly a tremendous loss of insight compared to…
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The Bigotry of the Literati
A superficial observer of present-day ideologies could easily fail to recognize the prevailing bigotry of the molders of public opinion and the machinations…
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About Socialism and Socialists
In every country the socialists have become office seekers, aiming to get hold of the reins of government by parliamentary methods, and for no other purpose…
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With Or Without a God: Natural Law and Property Rights
The 17th-century Dutch Protestant Hugo Grotius, deeply influenced by the late Spanish Scholastics, developed a theory of natural laws that he boldly declared…
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Economic Nationalism Is a Philosophy of War
It is certainly true that our age is full of conflicts which generate war. However, these conflicts do not spring from the operation of the unhampered market…
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Flooding the World with Truth
In our times, a major reason, and perhaps the major reason, for the phenomenal progress of the ideas of liberty is the work of the Mises Institute. This is the…
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Joan Kennedy Taylor (1926—2005)
Joan Kennedy Taylor first became involved in the libertarian movement in the early 1960s, when she was a student at the Nathaniel Branden Institute in New York…
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The New Deal and Prohibition
Prohibition and the New Deal are alike in their professed intention. Both assumed the guise of disinterested benevolence towards the body politic. We are…
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Physiocracy and Free Trade in 18th-Century France
The first self-conscious school of economic thought developed in France shortly after the publication of Cantillon's Essai. They called themselves "the…
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The Egalitarian Program
The envy-driven masses do not care a whit for what the demagogues call the "bourgeois" concern for freedom of conscience, of thought, of the press, for habeas…
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Frank Chodorov, Educator
You have only a few years to live and cannot hope to remake society in so short a time. Nobody now living will see a free society in America. But, in fighting…
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Richard Cantillon: The Founding Father of Modern Economics
The honor of being called the "father of modern economics" belongs not to its usual recipient, Adam Smith, but to a gallicized Irish merchant, banker, and…
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Frank Chodorov, Non-Voter
If we don't seek to use the vote to steer American society away from the direction in which it has been moving for all these many decades, what do we do…
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Bureaucracy in Retreat
Julian Assange, through WikiLeaks, has made available to society a vast collection of information that undermines the state's legitimacy. Assange cracked the…
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Private Property
Private ownership of the means of production is the fundamental institution of the market economy. It is the institution the presence of which characterizes…
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The Auctioneer
Joan Samson was a Depression baby, born in 1937. In 1975, the year before her death, she published her only novel, The Auctioneer . This seems to be just about…
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Lord Townshend on Trade and Morality
Charles, the third Viscount Townshend (1700–1764), has been shamefully neglected by virtually all historians of economic thought. He is virtually unknown…
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The Role of Environment in History
The environment determines the situation but not the response. To the same situation different modes of reacting are thinkable and feasible. Which one the…
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James C. Scott: The Art of Not Being Governed
If Scott can excoriate most of his fellow historians for confounding "civilization" with "state-making," he himself can be excoriated for confounding…
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Ira Levin (1929–2007)
Ira Levin died just over three years ago, on November 12, 2007, at the age of 78, the largely unsung author of one of the top half-dozen libertarian novels…
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Business and Economic Change
Profit and loss is the heart of business and economic change. Entrepreneurs drive the market at every level, predicting future wants and taking risks with…
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How to Improve Society
The Gilded Age ushered in industrial leaders in capitalistic achievement. Success in the world of commerce reflected certain characteristics: stay in touch…
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Modern Banking: Creating Booms and Busts
Deposit banking rests on the bank honoring property rights. Loan banking rests on making good loans that will pay off. But when loan banking and deposit…
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The Division of Labor
Instead of each person doing all of the work creating what he needs and wants, dividing the labor amongst all of us into specialties is clearly superior by…
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Why Does Economics Matter?
Austrian economists differ from mainstream economists mainly in this way: they do not rely on mathematical models, but on understanding what causes success or…
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John Law: Proto-Keynesian
Like today's central bankers, John Law proposed to "supply the nation" with a sufficiency of money. The increased money was supposed to vivify trade and…
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Rationalization in Politics and Life
A man who is obliged to justify his handling of a matter in the eyes of other people often resorts to a pretext. As the motive of his deviation from the most…
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Robert Nozick (1938–2002)
When he was in his 20s, having newly discovered libertarian ideas, having read Rand, Rothbard, Mises, Hayek, and others, having met Rothbard and conversed with…
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Prop. 19 Goes up in Smoke
Plans are already in the works to put the initiative back on the ballot for 2012, which is expected to have higher turnout from young people. But in order for…
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A Century of Failure: Why It's Time to Consider Replacing the Fed
Recorded at the Mises Circle at Furman University on November 13th, 2010. PPT
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Ben Bernanke's Pretense of Knowledge
Recorded at the Mises Circle at Furman University on November 13th, 2010.
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Currency Failures from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A Brief History of Inflation
Recorded at the Mises Circle at Furman Universityon November 13th, 2010. PPT
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How 'Mainstream' Economics Miseducates About Money and the Fed
Recorded at the Mises Circle at Furman University, November 13th, 2010.
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Money: Sound and Unsound
Recorded at the Mises Circle at Furman University on November 13th, 2010.
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The North Brothers: Building Economic Theory "From Principles Indisputably True"
Weighing in on the side of John Locke, not only on interest rates but also in a general and comprehensive vision of economic laissez-faire that even surpassed…
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History and Fiction
It is a hopeless task to interpret a symphony, a painting, or a novel. The interpreter at best tries to tell us something about his reaction to the work. He…
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They're No Angels
If it were not for the police, lawlessness and chaos would rule; therefore, we owe our safety, our civilization, our very lives to the selflessness and…
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R.C. Hoiles (1878–1970)
R.C. wouldn't tolerate news stories that referred to the "public schools," for example. His reporters were required to refer to them as "government schools."…
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John Locke vs. the Mercantilists
John Locke, the Protestant Scholastic, was essentially in the hard-money, metallist, anti-inflationist tradition of the Scholastics; his opponents, on the…
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The Collectivist Dogma
The collectivist doctrines look upon the individual merely as a refractory rebel. This sinful wretch has the impudence to give preference to his petty selfish…
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Henry Hazlitt and the Rising Libertarian Generation
Part of the experience of reading Newsweek in the early 1960s was a weekly column called "Business Tides." It offered wide-ranging and insightful commentary on…
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Sir Josiah Child: False Friend of Freedom
One of Josiah Child's main deviations from free-market and laissez-faire doctrine was to agitate for one of the favorite programs of the mercantilists &mdash…
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Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933)
Though he devoted much of his life to writing, editing, publishing, and political activism, it isn't really for any of these activities that Jo Labadie should…
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Liberty and Property: the Levellers and Locke
There is no clash between Locke's libertarian concerns and devotion to "classical virtue." Devotees of liberty, property, and free markets have generally been…
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The Real Reason for FDR's Popularity
What if a president took a different direction and sought popularity by expanding rather than reducing liberty? There is a model here they could follow, but it…
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Positivism and Behaviorism
The most obtrusive champion of the neopositivist program concerning the sciences of human action was Otto Neurath, who, in 1919, was one of the outstanding…
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John T. Flynn: Revisionist Journalist
John T. Flynn was, if not the very first, then one of the very first few, of the revisionist journalists to write about the New Deal, focusing on both its…
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The Brilliance of Turgot
If we were to award a prize for "brilliancy" in the history of economic thought, it would surely go to Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, the baron de l'Aulne…
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Historicist Relativism
The technique of the historicists' indictment of capitalism is simple indeed. They take all its achievements for granted but blame it for the disappearance of…
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How I See the World Today
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute's Supporters Summit; Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010.
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How I See the World Today: Question and Answer Period
Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute's Supporters Summit; Auburn, Alabama; 9 October 2010.
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John T. Flynn: Liberal
Flynn was a liberal - a classical liberal. He held to the delusion that the state can be reformed. Wide differences existed on just what state coercion was…